Mildred June
Date of birth: 1905-12-23
Place of birth: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Known for: Acting
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Biography
Mildred June was born on December 23, 1905, in St Louis, Missouri. When she was a child her family moved to Kansas and eventually settled in California. She attended Hollywood high school and took dancing lessons. At the age of fifteen Mildred was discovered by producer Mack Sennett. She became one his bathing beauties and worked as an extra in his films. Mildred appeared in dozens of short films including Dog Shy with Charley Chase and Hook and Ladder with Hoot Gibson. She also starred in a series of two reel comedies with Billy Bevan. Although she enjoyed making comedies she dreamed of becoming a dramatic actress. Mildred married Herbert Edward Capps, a twenty-five year old dentist, in 1922. The following year she was given the lead in the drama The Greatest Menace. She was signed by Universal studios but her career never took off. Mildred returned to Mack Sennett's studio and appeared in the 1927 comedy Crazy To Act. She divorced her husband and had a brief romance with with real estate executive Jimmy Houston. Unfortunately by 1928 she was unemployed and battling a serious alcohol problem. Mildred married her second husband, Bud Sheehan, in 1930. Sadly he passed away a few years later. In 1936 she had a bit part in the Laurel and Hardy film Our Relations. It would her last acting role. On June 19, 1940 Mildred passed away from cirrhosis of the liver caused by her alcoholism. She was only thirty-four years old. Mildred was cremated and her ashes were buried at Hollywood Forever cemetery in Hollywood, California.
Movie Credits
Crazy to Act
1927-05-15
Millionaire film producer Gordon Bagley wants to marry Ethel St. John, the leading lady in his lates
Manslaughter
1922-09-24
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of moto
The Crossroads of New York
1922-06-22
A young man from the country travels to the city to find his fortune. Although he has a letter of in
Hook and Ladder
1924-01-07
Cowboy Ace Cooper, to avoid arrest, becomes a fireman, falls in love with the chief's daughter, Sall
Dog Shy
1926-04-04
Charley is chased into a phone booth by a dog and agrees to help a young woman on the phone avoid ge
Kick Me Again
1925-11-24
Don’t expect much in the way of a plot from Kick Me Again. When a married student falls for her port
The Greatest Menace
1923-05-19
A DA's son gets involved in a drug-related murder, and it's up to his father and sister to get him o
A Deep Sea Panic
1924-09-28
A cruel sea captain shanghais Jimmie to work on his ship, but Jimmie's girlfriend also stows away on
Gymnasium Jim
1922-05-09
Keystone comedy about a garage owner pining for the girl next door, coming into money, and betting o
Down on the Farm
1920-04-17
The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more
Love and Doughnuts
1921-09-14
Ben and fiancée Haver run a bakery and grocery. A mostly lost film, only seven minutes survive.
When Summer Comes
1922-09-22
Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the short
On Patrol
1922-03-12
Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes
The Duck Hunter
1922-02-13
A 1922 comedy short.
Matrimony Blues
1926-05-02
Short film about the title subject played for laughs.
Smith's Picnic
1926-12-12
The accident-prone Smith family (Raymond McKee, Ruth Hiatt, and Mary Ann Jackson) head to the beach
Crinoline and Romance
1923-02-05
The Battling Kangaroo
1926-12-05
Lige Conley goes into a fight to collect money to marry his girl. Then, hooking up with Holloway and
Up in Alf's Place
1919-10-12
Charles Murray gets caught by his wife flirting with a dancer.
The Rosary
1922-01-16
After his uncle dies, founder of the fishing village of Sandy Bay, Kenwood Wright is cut off with on
Nip and Tuck
1923-08-11
Billy Bevan, Harry Gribbon, Kewpie Morgan and their dog engage in a poker game.
Be Reasonable
1921-12-11
Billy is a bit of a masher. He meets a lady on the beach and immediately gives her an expensive gift
The House of Flickers
1925-03-15
The troubles of a movie projectionist in a newly-purchased theater are chronicled in this two-reeler
When Seconds Count
1927-04-01
Following a rift with his wealthy father, Billy Mathewson, a young Broadway wastrel, escapes with hi
Troubles of a Bride
1924-11-30
Escaping from the police, The Baron, a gentleman crook, learns that Colonel Patterson, a wealthy ban
Rich Men's Wives
1922-09-15
Wealthy John and Gay Masters lead a busy social life to the neglect of their son, Jackie. Also feeli
Fashionable Fakers
1923-12-16
Thaddeus Plummer is nicknamed "The Worm" because his job involves boring holes into furniture to cre
Love, Honor and Behave
1920-11-22
A young married couple appears before a judge to get a divorce. The wife shows the judge some pictur